Generating, storing, updating and disseminating a countrywide 3D model

As in many countries, in The Netherlands governmental organisations are acquiring 3D city models to support their public tasks. However, this is still being done within individual organisation, resulting in differences in 3D city models within one country and sometimes covering the same area: i.e. differences in data structure, height...

Automated generalisation within NMAs in 2016

Producing maps and geo-data at different scales is traditionally one of the main tasks of National (and regional) Mapping Agencies (NMAs). The derivation of low-scale maps (i.e. with less detail) from large-scale maps (with more detail), i.e. generalisation, used to be a manual task of cartographers. With the need for more up-to-date data as...

Automated Map Generalisation: Meeting today's information demands

Generalisation of a 1:10k map from municipal data

This paper reports about the feasibility study carried out by the Dutch Kadaster to automatically generalise the largest scale topographical data set maintained by the Kadaster (i.e. TOP10NL) from the 1:1k topographical object oriented data set, which is currently being collected and structured by organisations that need to maintain public space...